Cory Bowles is a multidisciplinary artist from Nova Scotia, Canada. His first feature BLACK COP (2017) premiered at the Toronto International Film festival to sold out screenings, and is garnering festival awards, including Best Canadian Feature at the 2017 Vancouver International Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at the St. Louis International Film Festival. In 2013 he made the jump from longtime cast member to director of in the TV series TRAILER PARK BOYS, receiving a nomination for the 2016 DGC award for Outstanding direction in a comedy series. He wrote and directed the award winning short films THE SCAVENGERS (Fantasia ’08) and HEART OF RHYME (TIFF 2011), ANATOMY OF ASSISTANCE (TIFF 2013) and RIGHTEOUS (VIFF 2014) and BLACK COP (2016) that combined, have screened in over 50 festivals worldwide. He served as Director of Choreography for the CBC KIDS show THE MOBLEES and director of the award winning CBC mini series STUDIO BLACK! (Seasons 1 & 2). As principal choreographer and director of the companies Verve Mwendo Dance, and Black Rabbit Entertainment, he has created over 70 works / choreographies for stage and film - his work reflecting his fascination to racial identity, social and cultural structures.  He serves on the boards of Arts Nova Scotia, Screen Nova Scotia, was faculty at the Bishop’s University Drama Program and is an alumnus of the 2012 Directors lab at the Canadian Film Centre.  Most recently in 2017 he returned to Decidedly Jazz Danceworks for an ambitious collaboration and adaptation of Romeo and Juliet and serves as a writer for the new CBC comedy, Little Dog.